Posted on 07/01/2013 6:40:18 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Her lips were sealed, but a woman who mistakenly glued her mouth shut now can't stop talking about her ''near death'' experience.
The Dunedin grandmother, who glued her lips together after applying a superglue instead of cold sore cream on Thursday night, told the Otago Daily Times yesterday: ''I thought I was going to die''.
The 64-year-old was too embarrassed to be be named or photographed yesterday.
The incident was sparked after she woke to apply some cold sore cream, kept in a drawer at her St Kilda flat.
Without turning on a light, she saw the yellow label of what she believed was the cream and ''thought that's it' and went back to sleep''.
''I woke up, I think minutes later, to have a drink and I couldn't open my mouth ... I panicked,'' said the woman, who also had a blocked nose after coming down with the flu.
''I thought I was going to die.''
Frantically trying to pull her lips apart, she phoned 111 ''but couldn't speak. All I could do was grunt''.
''They asked me where I lived and all I could say was 'mmmmmm'.
''I was dry retching. I felt like I was going to be sick. I was panicking. I couldn't open my mouth.''
Told to tap once for no and twice for yes on her phone's speaker, she answered a series of questions including whether she lived in the South Island, whether she lived in Christchurch/Dunedin etc, followed by suburbs and major streets.
The emergency call went on for 20 minutes, by which time a police dog handler had arrived. The police had been called because of fears the woman had been gagged.
She showed them the glue and the cream, and was taken to Dunedin Hospital.
Doctors used paraffin oil and hot water to loosen her lips and she said ''it was like a wee chicken coming out of her shell''.
The first gasp of air ''was wonderful. I thought 'praise the Lord'.''
She threw the glue in the rubbish bin yesterday.
The woman expressed thanks to emergency services staff.
A St John spokesman was pleased to hear the woman was recovering.
''The call taker who communicated with her did an excellent job of ascertaining where the patient lived, while the crew did what they could to assess and treat her, and make her as comfortable as possible, while she was taken to hospital.''
Art Bell accidently glued his lips shut while on air one night in the 90’s.
A very funny show...
Suddenly, loads of guys got an idea of how to deal with their nagging wife.
I use two different eye drops for glaucoma, “blue top” and “purple top”. I make sure that my “red top” similar size/shape super glue bottle is far, far away!
Ruin your whole day!
"So they mistook me for a liberal and hung up."
What kills first? Lack of talking or food?
Yes, I keep creams and ointments in the bathroom and super glue in the garage. I dunno... Seems like a good idea to me.
Need to send some super glue to liberal and RINO congress critters.
/johnny
We stopped in to see friends one Christmas and found the wife screaming hysterically and her husband laughing. She had glued herself to a brick wall wall putting up Christmas garlands with Super Glue. Her (seemingly) unconcerned husband said to leave her there because then “the children would know where to find her”.
My husband said that he could release her and opened his pocket knife. She really began to scream then, and I could barely contain myself laughing. My (engineer) husband knew that if you slipped the blade of the knife at the edge of the bond and gave a quick twist that you would break the bond.
It worked, and she was released in a jiffy, unhurt (except for her dignity).
Just send them in retirement and stop pulling them from retirement like VA did with the idiot George Allen.
:-)
Strange.
Krazy glue never works on things I try to repair.
I had a patient for counseling who told me what happened to her. She was driving and stopped long enough to reach down for her eye drops and put drops in her eye, but it was super glue instead. She said the pain was horrible and the eye was glued shut - she got to the hospital as fast as she could. She did not lose her eye.
Don’t think smart and wealthy people don’t do things like that. This woman was smart and very wealthy but she still used super glue instead of eye drops.
Didn’t someone glue someone else to a toilet seat? Did I read that or just think about doing it to someone I can’t stand?
Very funny!
To the amusement of my kids, I am an expert at accidentally gluing my fingers together when I am trying to fix something with super glue. The same trick you mentioned can be accomplished with a spoon (a thin one). Rub the edge of the spoon back and forth along the side of the bond until it breaks apart.
The problem is that the small, thin spoons we have are from our nice table set!
My mom somehow got the car stuck in the garage once....like almost sideways. Mom said she was crying when she finally asked my dad for help.
Dad took over and got it out. He never said a word after just went in the house.
During the Q and A part at the end of the “The Carol Burnett Show,” an audience member asked Harvey Korman if Tim Conway was that funny in real life, outside the show. Harvey said he went to visit Tim at his house just after Crazy Glue came out. He said that Tim had manged to glue himself to just about everything.
It's a good thing she wasn't reaching for a tube of Preparation H.
Good thing she didn’t have hemmoroids
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